CVE-2005-2849

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Barracuda Spam Firewall running firmware 3.1.16 and 3.1.17 allows remote attackers to (1) read portions of source code via the -f option to Dig (dig_device.cgi), (2) determine file existence via the -r argument to Tcpdump (tcpdump_device.cgi) or (3) modify files in the cgi-bin directory via the -w argument to Tcpdump.

Affected products

Barracuda Networks Barracuda Spam Firewall: 3.1.16, 3.1.17

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112560044813390&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16683/
http://securiweb.net/wiki/Ressources/AvisDeSecurite/2005.1
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Sep/1014837.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112560044813390&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16683/
http://securiweb.net/wiki/Ressources/AvisDeSecurite/2005.1
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Sep/1014837.html

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